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Boston Community Information System User Manual (Version 6.0)
(1986-04)
The Boston Community Information System turns your computer into a personal information assistant that monitors the news as it happens. This experiment, CommInS, tests a new way of distributing world news and features ...
Boston Community Information System - 1986 Experimental Test Results
(1987-08)
This report describes the first year of an experimental test of the Boston Community Information System (Boston CommInS). The experiment implements new ideas of data communication and database design in the transmission ...
Clipping Service User's Manual (Version 1.2)
(1987-09)
The Clipping Service is a program that will send selected stories from the New York Times and other information sources to you via electronic mail. In order to use the Clipping Service, you first describe your interests ...
FX-87 Performance Measurements: Dataflow Implementation
(1988-09)
We analyze how much the FX-87 static effect system can improve the execution times of five benchmark programs on a parallel graph interpreter. Three of our benchmark programs do not use side-effects (factorial, fibonacci, ...
Boston Community Information System User's Manual
(1987-10)
The Boston Community Information System turns your computer into a personal information assistant that monitors the news as it happens. This experiment, CommInS, tests a new way of distributing world news as it happens ...
Walter User's Manual (Version 1.0)
(1987-09)
Walter is a UNIX program that provides access to databases located at MIT via the DARPA Internet. The databases provided by Walter include the full-text of the New York Times for the past 90 days. A sophisticated full-text ...
Communication Effects for Message-based Concurrency
(1989-02)
We describe a new framework for explicity concurrency that uses an effect system to describe the communication behavior of expressions in a typed polymorphic programming language. Concurrency occurs between processes ...
An Application of Digital Broadcast Communication to Large Scale Information Systems
(1986-04)
A new type of information system is described that combines personal computers, broadcast data communication, and bidirectional communication. The system is designed to use broadcast communciation whenever possible to ...